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		<title>See You Next Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before our 3:30 p.m. sessions begin and Symposium/ITxpo 2009 in Orlando officially comes to an end, we wanted to thank you for joining us this year. We hope you enjoyed reading SymTimes and found it useful, whether your access was on site or from a distance. At the end of the sessions today, please drop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/see-you-next-year/</link>
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		<title>Analyst Spotlight on&#8230;David Mitchell Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Mitchell Smith is a vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, where he specializes in the impact of catalytic technologies such as the Internet, Web 2.0, cloud computing and consumer technologies. During his 13-plus years at Gartner, he has played a leadership role in several of the company&#8217;s efforts in these areas, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/analyst-spotlight-on-david-mitchell-smith/</link>
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		<title>Take Symposium Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t despair if you didn&#8217;t get to all the sessions you wanted, you missed a key moment in a keynote or your notes aren&#8217;t as complete as you&#8217;d like. The Keynote webcast links and the pdf presentations from sessions, workshops and clinics are available via Agenda Builder and accessible for the next year. And if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/take-symposium-home/</link>
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		<title>Balance and Constructive Disruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peppered with questions from Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and Brian Gammage, Microsoft&#8217;s Stephen Elop remained focused on the company&#8217;s strategic imperatives and operating principles during the third, and final, Mastermind Keynote interview today before a full house in the Dolphin&#8217;s Hemisphere ballroom. Elop said Microsoft fully embraces &#8220;constructive disruption,&#8221; and that the corporation recognizes the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/balance-and-constructive-disruption/</link>
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		<title>Pocket Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Grodnik, Gartner With 3 billion mobile phones on the planet, mobile devices have become mainstream to business, said to Ken Dulaney, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, in his Thursday presentation at the Yacht &#38; Beach. The prospects for the major suppliers of mobile enterprise devices, how various operating system platforms will fare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/pocket-power/</link>
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		<title>Thursday&#8217;s Lunch Menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lunch will be provided from 12 &#8211; 1:30 p.m. today. On the menu: roast beef and brie on a six grain roll, roasted turkey and Jarslburg on a french roll, fried chicken with baked beans or mac &#38; cheese with roasted corn and smoked cheddar for sides. Locations: Tents outside theYacht &#38; Beach and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/thursdays-lunch-menu/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Quale, Gartner Enterprises and CIOs should look at new financial reporting regulations as an opportunity to gain competitive advantage rather than as costly obstacles, said Michael Smith, Gartner Research vice president, during his this morning&#8217;s session &#8220;How 21st Century Financial Reporting Requirements Will Impact Enterprises and CIOs,&#8221; held in the Swan. &#8220;Regulatory authorities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/welcome-to-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Tell Us What You Think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to get your complimentary travel alarm clock or mp3 mini-speakers before you leave. There is a catch &#8211; you just need to turn in your conference evaluation form at the Information desks in the Dolphin, Swan or Yacht &#38; Beach, or at the registration counter in the Dolphin. Easy enough, no? Your feedback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/tell-us-what-you-think/</link>
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		<title>Important Analytic Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Frey, Gartner Defining the relative importance of different elements of an organization&#8217;s strategy is a necessary first step to prioritizing investments, said Gareth Herschel, Gartner research director and lead analyst on the use of analytics to drive improved business performance in the area of customer relationships. &#8220;The temptation for most organizations when presented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/important-analytic-applications/</link>
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		<title>Question of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What key takeaways will you leave the conference with? The whole social media impact. I work for government, and we’re not handling the impact of cloud computing very well. Beth Niblock Louisville Metro Government Cloud is coming! John Davis Agfirst Farm Credit Bank How to better structure enterprisearchitecture for the requirementsgathering. Andrew Lacroix Information on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-times/2009/10/22/question-of-the-day-4/</link>
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